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in tlie Karram Valley, whore tliere is plenty of good feeding- 

 ground, bags of fifty and sixty eouples of tliis and the next 

 species are often made in a few hours. On the return passage 

 in autumn comparatively few halt. 



[1487.] Gallixago gallinula. The Jack Snipe. 



Rattray, J. B. N. H. S. xii. p. 347 (Thall) ; Marshall, op. cit. 

 XV. p. 354 (Quetta : occasionally met with) ; Gumming, op. 

 cit. xvi. p. 695 (Seistan : said to be fairly common) ; Ward, 

 op. cit. xvii. p. 947 (Kaslimir). 



The same may be said of this bird as of the last, but it is 

 not quite so common. 



[1488.] RosTRATULA CAPENsis. The Painted Snipe. 



Rattray, J.B.N. H. S. xii. p. 347 (Thall in March); 

 Ward, op. cit. xvii. p. 947 (a resident in the Kashmir Valley). 



Rare in Kohat. Capt. Keen shot a specimen in April 1904, 

 while Mr. Donald and Major Venour shot several early in 

 July 1907 and saw others. In the Kurram Valley it is a 

 permanent resident, but is not common. 



[1498.] Hydroprogne caspia. The Caspian Tern. 



Rattray, J. B. N. H. S. xii. p. 347 (Thall) ; Gumming, 

 op. cit. xvi. p. 696 (common in Seistan). 



Colonel Rattray saw a party of seven near Thall on the 

 22nd of May and shot one. Capt. Keen and Mr. Boyle 

 observed a large solitary Tern on the Toi near Hangu 

 between the 20th and 26th of March, 1906, and from their 

 description it must, I think, have belonged to this species. 



[Major Magrath has also met with Lams ridihurulus and 

 L. cachinnans in Banuu, and as they both occur in Kashmir, 

 they probably also do so in the Kurram Valley.] 



[1499.] Sterna anglica. The Gull-billed Tern. 



Rattray, J. B. N. H. S. xii. p. 347 (Thall : common in 

 March) ; Gumming, op. cit. xvi. p. 696 (Seistan : common). 



Small flocks pass through Kohat from the beginning of 

 April till May (last seen on the 5th), and are then usually to 

 be met with about the grass-farm or feeding in irrigated 

 fields. 



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